NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 636

HOUSE BILL 900

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES UPON UTILITY EASEMENTS AFTER BEING FORBIDDEN TO DO SO.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 22 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding after G.S. 14-134.1 and before G.S. 14-135 a new section, G.S. 14-134.2, to read as follows:

"§ 14-134.2.  Prohibit operation of motor vehicles upon utility easements after being forbidden. — (a) If any person, without permission, shall ride, drive or operate a minibike, motorbike, motorcycle, jeep, dune buggy, automobile, truck or any other motor vehicle upon a utility easement upon which the owner or holder of the easement or agent of the owner or holder of the easement has posted on the easement a 'no trespassing' sign or has otherwise given oral or written notice to the person not to so ride, drive or operate such a vehicle upon the said easement, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for not more than six months or both, provided, however, neither the owner of the property nor the holder of the easement or their agents, employees, guests, invitees or permittees, shall be guilty of a violation under this subsection."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on and after July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1975.